Public bug reported: A recent upgrade of the cloud-init package breaks the service. This happens on a DigitalOcean instance running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Downgrading and pinning the cloud-init package keeps things from breaking, but obviously that's only a crude hack.
$ lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 16.04.7 LTS Release: 16.04 $ apt-cache policy cloud-init cloud-init: Installed: 21.1-19-gbad84ad4-0ubuntu1~16.04.1 Candidate: 21.1-19-gbad84ad4-0ubuntu1~16.04.1 Version table: *** 21.1-19-gbad84ad4-0ubuntu1~16.04.1 500 500 http://mirrors.digitalocean.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 0.7.7~bzr1212-0ubuntu1 500 500 http://mirrors.digitalocean.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages $ systemctl status cloud-init ● cloud-init.service - Initial cloud-init job (metadata service crawler) Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/cloud-init.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2021-04-16 04:13:33 CEST; 4min 3s ago Process: 1037 ExecStart=/usr/bin/cloud-init init (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Main PID: 1037 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Apr 16 04:13:33 crow16 cloud-init[1037]: File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cloudinit/stages.py", line 371, in update Apr 16 04:13:33 crow16 cloud-init[1037]: self._store_raw_vendordata(self.datasource.get_vendordata2_raw(), Apr 16 04:13:33 crow16 cloud-init[1037]: File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cloudinit/sources/__init__.py", line 506, in get_vendordata2_raw Apr 16 04:13:33 crow16 cloud-init[1037]: return self.vendordata2_raw Apr 16 04:13:33 crow16 cloud-init[1037]: AttributeError: 'DataSourceDigitalOcean' object has no attribute 'vendordata2_raw' Apr 16 04:13:33 crow16 cloud-init[1037]: ------------------------------------------------------------ Apr 16 04:13:33 crow16 systemd[1]: cloud-init.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Apr 16 04:13:33 crow16 systemd[1]: Failed to start Initial cloud-init job (metadata service crawler). Apr 16 04:13:33 crow16 systemd[1]: cloud-init.service: Unit entered failed state. Apr 16 04:13:33 crow16 systemd[1]: cloud-init.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. For the record, I see the exact same failure messages when installing the cloud-init package from the official xenial-updates repo. ** Affects: cloud-init (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1924755 Title: Failed to start Initial cloud-init job To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cloud-init/+bug/1924755/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs